Alexander Jablokov

 

I'm a writer, mostly of science fiction, with a new novel, Brain Thief.

The name is pronounced Yablokov, and the legal name is Jablokow.  My best friends can't spell or pronounce it, so you shouldn't worry about it either.

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"The Comfort of Strangers", short story, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February 2012

"Blind Cat Dance" reprinted in Gardner Dozois's Best Science Fiction of the Year 28

"The Day the Wires Came Down", novelette, Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2011

"Plinth Without Figure", short story, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2010

"Warning Label", short story, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine August 2010

"Blind Cat Dance", short story, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine March 2010

Brain Thief, a novel, Tor Books, January 2010

 

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Tuesday
Jan192010

Portrait and landscape

A few weeks ago I complained about having to get a widescreen monitor when my previous monitor died.  I found the screen too short and too wide, with printed lines as endless as midwestern freight trains.

I've solved the problem, in a fashion.  I upgraded my driver so that it permits screen rotation, and picked up an Omnimount WS3 desktop mount that lets me rotate the screen.  This gives me a tall narrow screen when I want, and a wide one when I want.  The tall one is really tall, so I generally use a window somewhat shorter that the maximum so I don't have to crane up at the top menu.

Here's what it looks like when displaying full text:

And, so you can see the mount, here it is moved out of the way:

BTW, this gives you a decent idea of what my desk usually looks like:  not that messy, given my natural tendencies.  A few souvenirs, art work by offspring, and the all-important container of MetaPhor (actually an agarose I got a lab friend to give to me).

Reader Comments (2)

I like the "Don't get it right, get it written" sign, too. Those are words to live by in a number of contexts.

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteroldhousegeek

Where's the picture of your hiking buddies in the Grand Canyon?

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPaul in Santa Fe

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